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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:

No Dick Nixon to kick around any more, but courtesy of YouTube's The Davos Question, we still have Dr. K.

Follow this link to the original source: "http://youtube.com/watch?v=mYyNvNWCCks"

COMMENTARY:

You know you're not well liked when Sith Lord is one of the nicer terms people use to describe you.

A few months back, the people at YouTube who brought us http://youtube.com/members?s=po&t=w&g=-1 for the US presidential election, created an international version: http://youtube.com/user/thedavosquestion — an opportunity for lesser beings to pose questions via video to world leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Of course, not all http://youtube.com/watch?v=oZmR_WrX89smade the final cut, but of the 121 questions fielded by world leaders, one did make its way through to Henry Kissinger. That would be one question besides, "Is that guy still alive?"

Kissinger's sixty second non-answer wasn't much to watch. The official video http://youtube.com/watch?v=H7KuHjev1Ws has decent sound quality for Dr. K's low, heavily accented voice, but in two weeks of life it has gathered less than 4,000 views and 50 comments. However, a video-of-his-video answer http://youtube.com/watch?v=mYyNvNWCCks has garnered nearly 190,000 views and 650 comments in the same two week period. This puts Dr. Kissinger momentarily in http://youtube.com/watch?v=QKjhNa6PGLk territory for popularity — except in Dr. K's case we are talking infamy rather than adoration.

In excerpting Sith Lord for use in the title of this write-up, we passed over war criminal, fascist and anti-Christ as descriptions for the man that has for over 40 years advised presidents and prime ministers alike. This is after we eliminated all the comments laced with profanity. It would seem Kissinger's role in the http://thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/Nixon_Cambodia_LFE.html and http://www.thenewamerican.com/node/5829 still precedes him among those not paid to praise him. 

While it is doubtful the octogenarian Kissinger spends time on Youtube, it would seem likely that someone has passed the word to him, "You know Dr. Kissinger, there are a lot of people who still really hate you." 

The young Turks at YouTube must be wondering what part of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist they inadvertently have tapped into here. Others who track these things are likely taking note that in our era of even shorter attention spans they have discovered an on-screen visage capable of achieving raving hatred in only sixty seconds as opposed to the http://youtube.com/watch?v=z_C992KPzKs required back in 1984.

If there is justice, some future history will fairly remember Henry Kissinger as a real-life cross between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goldstein and http://youtube.com/watch?v=VD7_7SXsHU8.

Other Davos vids worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkTeznd2Vuw&NR=1 —  a near perfect dimple in his yellow tie notwithstanding, this guy is in a neck-and-neck race with http://www.eleconomista.es/imag/reportajes/solteras/solteras-Condoleezza-Rice.JPG as to who represents the best proof that our world is actually ruled by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%3a%44inosauroid4.jpg